This year CES was awash with two things: Yahoo widgets, which were more common than pox on a Victorian-era prostitute, and 3D. As we wandered from booth to booth, looking at TVs displaying double images and people gawking at them through daft-looking glasses, we wondered: who asked for this? 3D is great in real life, …

The back of a television can be a minefield, and they are almost always a total mess. This year at CES though, a company called Flexicord thinks it might be able to despaghettify your living room. Using some clever patent-pending technology, its HDMI cables can be coiled, twisted or bent to fit your home cinema. Unlike most cables, which will …

Everyone has times when they feel restless and unable to settle on decisions, but those good folks over at Panasonic have got it bad. It seems like only yesterday that the BD30 and BD50 players arrived and now the company has replaced them with new and exciting models. The DMP-BD35 and BD55 seem to have been on a radical diet, …

It doesn’t seem to matter how many HDMI sockets manufacturers put on a TV: it’s never enough. If your TV is a couple of years old, you might only have one or two HDMI sockets, and that’s nowhere near enough. Like many manufacturers, Profigold has HDMI switchers that enable you to plug two devices into just one socket. Useful if …

This Friday is iPlayer day, according to the excellent BBC Internet blog. This anniversary marks iPlayer’s soft launch this time last year, with a harder launch that began on Christmas day with a TV advertising campaign. Since then, the BBC has been accused of wrecking the Internet, as well as upsetting granddads. Today, the Guardian has reported that the BBC …

We think it’s fair to say the Batman franchise hit an all-time low with the so-bad-it’s-funny Batman and Robin — a movie so horrendous that even the collective nipples of George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell and Alicia Silverstone couldn’t save it. We’d argue that the series peaked with Batman Begins, a much-needed reboot for Gotham’s finest. Now its sequel, The Dark …

We’ve never been slow to criticise stand-alone Blu-ray players, and particularly Sony hardware. We’ve always had good reason, mind — the previous generation of players were massively overpriced and very poorly specified. But by George, we think they’ve got it: the Sony BDP-S350 costs just £160 and is fully profile 2.0 compliant. The S350 is appreciably smaller than previous players from …

Blu-ray is great for home viewing on a large screen, but when you’re on the move with a laptop it’s neither practical or necessary to watch a 1080p copy of a movie. With that in mind, on the Hancock Blu-ray Sony provides a digital copy of the movie which you can transfer to your computer. Of course, it’s not as …

Although we moan about products a lot — a lot — we’re usually highlighting minor problems. When we reviewed the Humax 9300T recently, however, we noted that the fan noise was more than a minor issue. It was so bad, it stopped us from recommending an otherwise excellent video recorder. Because we’ve had nothing but praise for other Humax products, …

Sky has offered live streaming of channels such as Sky News for some time now, but only to subscribers. In a move designed to hit some subscriber targets, Sky is making its Sky Player available to people who don’t have a standard subscription and a dish. Instead, you’ll just need a really understanding ISP. The company has yet to finalise …